Which school had the best GCSE results in Nottingham in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, The West Bridgford School topped the table in Nottingham with 62.9, against an England average of 46.1. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Nottingham GCSE results?

This page is the 2025 archive (the 2024/25 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Nottingham are on the main Nottingham GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Nottingham show no 2025 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2025 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Nottingham GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

38 state secondary schools in Nottingham ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 1 school with no published results is listed at the end. 4 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2025 archive of the table. See the latest Nottingham GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Town 39 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Nottingham ranked on Attainment 8

38 of 39 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Nottingham ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.1	45%	65%	4.09	–
1 , up 2 places since 2024	The West Bridgford School Nottingham · Academy converter	62.9	81%	92%	6.00	270
2 , down 1 place since 2024	Rushcliffe Spencer Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	58.1	74%	86%	5.19	297
3 , up 1 place since 2024	Toot Hill School Nottingham · Academy converter	55.9	68%	86%	5.30	295
4 , up 2 places since 2024	The Trinity Catholic School A Voluntary Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	55.3	59%	83%	4.95	196
5 , down 3 places since 2024	Fernwood School Nottingham · Academy converter	53.8	63%	80%	4.78	297
6 , up 2 places since 2024	Alderman White School Nottingham · Academy converter	53.6	60%	72%	4.87	150
7 , up 2 places since 2024	The South Wolds Academy & Sixth Form Nottingham · Academy converter	53.5	61%	76%	4.54	161
8= , up 2 places since 2024	George Spencer Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	51.7	56%	78%	4.83	275
8= , down 3 places since 2024	South Nottinghamshire Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	51.7	57%	81%	4.76	145
10 , down 3 places since 2024	Nottingham Free School Nottingham · Free schools	51.5	55%	79%	4.84	119
11 , up 6 places since 2024	Bramcote College Nottingham · Academy converter	51.3	59%	82%	4.36	125
12 , up 10 places since 2024	Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology Nottingham · Free schools	51.1	53%	75%	4.42	122
13 , up 1 place since 2024	The Kimberley School Nottingham · Academy converter	51.0	50%	80%	4.42	230
14 , down 3 places since 2024	Redhill Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	50.6	48%	70%	4.65	241
15 , up 4 places since 2024	Chilwell School Nottingham · Foundation school	50.2	55%	74%	4.46	171
16	Arnold Hill Spencer Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	49.8	52%	73%	4.28	262
17 , down 5 places since 2024	Bluecoat Wollaton Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	49.4	52%	71%	4.12	151
18 , up 2 places since 2024	Christ The King Voluntary Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	48.9	52%	73%	4.13	157
19 , down 4 places since 2024	Bluecoat Aspley Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	48.6	47%	64%	4.15	186
20 , up 1 place since 2024	Colonel Frank Seely Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	47.9	45%	70%	4.46	123
21 , up 3 places since 2024	Ashfield Comprehensive School Nottingham · Academy converter	47.8	44%	69%	4.28	395
22 , down 9 places since 2024	Nottingham Girls' Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	47.7	43%	72%	4.33	156
23 , down 6 places since 2024	Carlton Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	45.1	46%	66%	4.01	224
24 , up 11 places since 2024	The Wells Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	43.1	35%	59%	3.60	144
25 , up 1 place since 2024	Hall Park Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	43.0	34%	54%	3.86	155
26 , down 1 place since 2024	Park Vale Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	42.8	37%	58%	3.90	181
27 , down 5 places since 2024	The National CofE Academy Nottingham · Academy converter	42.6	38%	57%	3.72	200
28 , down 1 place since 2024	Nottingham Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	42.1	36%	56%	3.39	287
29	The Oakwood Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	41.3	33%	58%	3.63	142
30 , up 2 places since 2024	Nottingham University Samworth Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	40.5	35%	60%	3.18	165
31 , up 6 places since 2024	Farnborough Spencer Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	38.9	41%	55%	3.50	181
32 , down 2 places since 2024	Selston High School Nottingham · Academy converter	38.8	34%	56%	3.29	172
33 , down 5 places since 2024	Djanogly City Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	38.0	30%	47%	3.39	231
34 , down 1 place since 2024	Ellis Guilford School Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	37.1	29%	48%	3.32	267
35= , down 1 place since 2024	Outwood Academy Kirkby Nottingham · Academy converter	36.1	34%	47%	3.08	83
35= , up 1 place since 2024	The Bulwell Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	36.1	29%	47%	3.01	188
37 , down 7 places since 2024	The Holgate Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	34.3	20%	38%	2.85	212
38	Bluecoat Beechdale Academy Nottingham · Academy sponsor led	34.0	21%	35%	2.75	173
–	Bluecoat Trent Academy Nottingham · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2025	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Under each rank: the change since the 2024 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2024 result.

Independent schools in Nottingham with published 2025 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
FUEL Nottingham · Other independent school	2.6	0%	36
Hollygirt School Nottingham · Other independent school	10.2	0%	51
Jamia Al-Hudaa Residential College Nottingham · Other independent school	54.3	65%	20
Nottingham High School Nottingham · Other independent school	49.9	0%	107

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2025 was 46.1.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 is not shown: the DfE published no Progress 8 for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020, the baseline it is measured from. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so a selective school will usually top an attainment-only table.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2025 archive of the table: each school's 2025 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2025 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Nottingham GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Nottingham on our composite score

Nottingham GCSE results 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Nottingham ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Nottingham with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Nottingham

Nottingham GCSE results: common questions